2 Preface وَأَذِنَت لِرَبِّها وَحُقَّتYusuf AliAnd hearkens to1 (the Command of) its Lord,—and it must needs (do so);—We may think that the heavens we see above us,—high and sacred, seemingly vast and limitless, eternal and timeless—are not created matter. But they are. And they remain just so long as God wills it so, and not a moment longer. As soon as His Command issues for their dissolution, they will obey and vanish, and all their mystery will be emptied out. And it must necessarily be so; their very nature as created beings requires that they must hearken to the voice of their Creator, even to the extent of their own extinction.